abdur-rahman muhammad, if you can set the stage for as? life, end of malcolm x's he was not just deborah 21st, it was february 14, the firebombing of his home and so much more. but how did you get involved with this case? chair,nd 1980, thomas the only convicted confessed assassin was doing a lot of television interviews. he was trying to exonerate the two men who were convicted with him. butler and johnson. he was doing a lot of local tv. as a young college student, i watched this and that is when i case became exposed to the . that is where i first again to become educated in it. but around 1986 or so, i became a muslim and started to circulate amongst the community and begin to hear things that cost me to take invnvestigationa littlele further. your job in washington, d.c., what your day job has been over the years? but have done many things, momost recentltly, i was a tour guguide. amy: for arlington national cemetery. >> yes. i have sold cars. absent any -- i have done many things.. i don't have any kind of tenured position anywhere.

ndnewshour wee ivette felicia and series producer phil bertelsen and series historian abdur-rahman muhammadn, reporter: phil bertel abdul rahman-muhammed, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you for having us. fi>> reporter: st off, before watching this series, i had no idea that there were so many questions surrounding lcolm x's murder. can you briefly outline some of the holes in the story of his killing and whatrirompted this coming together? the production of this? >> well, ever sinc1966, when three men were convictedor the assassination of malcolm x, scholars have always questioned that verdict from the veity of beginning. >> there might well be one of the assassins still out there hiding in plain sight, gone unpunished, unquestioned and protected to a cerin degree frm, from prosecution. >> reporter: an you know, yore an independent historian, but this happened decades ago and you've spent the better part of your life researching the truth behinx'd malcol assassination. >> yes, correct. >> reporter: many people told you to drop it. >> a lot of people told me to drop it. >> porte